The Morningside - TreeLogia (The Album As It Is Not) - review
The Morningside - TreeLogia (The Album As It Is Not) - review
Band
The Morningside Release date
August 12, 2011 Tracklist
01. The Trees Part One (Return)02. The Trees Part Two (Burned)
03. The Trees Part Three - TreeLogia (Going Away)
A review by
BitterCOld November 15, 2011
TreeLogia (The Album I As I See It And Will Describe Whilst Practicing Alliteration) marries mostly melancholic moods against majestic melodies.
The prolonged songs go through different phases as they plod along. The tracks are pretty much driven by slightly sorrowful melodic guitar leads, which are oft accompanied by subdued symphonic support and nature noises. At times they all coalesce and swell into majestic crescendos (well, as much as largely sparse, slow-paced, and sad music can crescendo), and at other points it all just drops away leaving just the stark, naked guitar line to carry the song. The growled/rasped/deathified vocals are perhaps the only particularly edgy aspect of the album.
The three songs are, as labeled, pretty much just one prolonged piece separated out into three tracks. It could just as easily be six or seven with all the various build ups and sonic recessions to near silence in the longer pieces. The nature of the songs makes them a bit ethereal. When reflecting on the album, I don't really recall songs or even segments of songs, but rather just the general mood that the pieces inspired. But I guess with this sort of music, the ability to convey a mood is perhaps more important than imprinting a cool riff.
All in all I found this an enjoyable, if not memorable listen and is definitely worth checking out if you like the concept of nature-fueled melodic death-doom.
Rating breakdown
| Performance: | 8 |
| Songwriting: | 7 |
| Originality: | 7 |
| Production: | 8 |
Written on 15.11.2011 by
Written on 15.11.2011 by
BitterCOld has been officially reviewing albums for MetalStorm since 2009. Comments
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Oh god I want to listen to this. I totally forgot about the fact you were going to release it and figured it was going to be pushed to 2012.  PS "[i]TreeLogia..." You forgot a closing [ /i ] bracket.
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A very nice review Bitter!! Indeed Its an insane awesome work from them...!
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It's basically an expansion of the idea in the song "The Trees" off their first album which is a really good track. For me they dragged out the atmospherics a little too long on this, their ideas are more concise on their 2 full lengths but I suppose thats bound to happen when you are expanding the idea of the original 10 min track to 45 mins or so. The band consider this an EP, albeit a pretty long one!:) their 2 full lengths are very good, the melodic lead guitar lines remind me of early Paradise Lost.
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Referring to them as the "melodic death / doom version of WITTR" instantly caught my eye. Excellent comparison. Good review. Thanks for the find.
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"at times they all coalesce and swell into majestic crescendos (well, as much as largely sparse, slow-paced, and sad music can crescendo), and at other points it all just drops away leaving just the stark, naked guitar line to carry the song." Ah, precisely what I loved about this one. Another beauty from 2011.
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